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Joel Birch@joelbirch.bsky.social |
353 followers 601 following 1050 posts
Guy in a band who likes politics. Interested in right wing extremism. Started many degrees finished none because somehow touring became my job.
www.joelfcbirch.com
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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I’ve been saying since last year that Biden should drop out to let Harris be the nominee. And I worry that if they wait until October they’ll look back fondly on July as the time they really could’ve acted.
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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The thing stopping the Dems is the Dems
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Bethany Black
@bethanyblack.bsky.social
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Can’t even have a Tory government anymore because of woke
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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Lunch time in the London financial district is just millionaires getting wasted before gambling with other people’s money afterwards. I guess the cocaine in the office gives them some balance.
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L.C.
@ssddftp.bsky.social
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Yeah true. Centrist libs use "leftist" as the same catch-all for anyone they don't like the way that the right uses "woke".
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Luke
@reallukemahler.bsky.social
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Aaron has mistaken his clips and videos for Doing Politics, and online leftists can seem powerful. Dude should maybe try to organize a union drive or even just get a beer with normie libs right now. This is not a leftist worry about Biden, it is universal.
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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I don’t know how many times anyone can explain that Joe Manchin did 1000x more damage to Joe Bidens presidency than anyone on Chapo. No one on the left has any power! We can’t throw anyone out!
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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A lot has happened in this past week, but don't forget that Neil Gorsuch and the rest of the conservatives said cities can criminalize needing a blanket in the cold.
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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Massive political miscalculation and systemic rot within the Democratic Party is clearly the fault of online leftists. Pod Save America is as rusted on Dem as they come and even they have said this shit with Biden is bad. How much cotton wool does one need over their eyes?
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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Seems normal
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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And then I wrote this series (not archived so all the still live links work) www.truthorfiction.com/how-to-fight...
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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Centrists are like the moral peacock trying to tell you incrementalism is good while watching everything be wound back to the 1800s because of incrementalism in the face of actual social danger. Everyone from the actual fascist right through to centrist Democrats all punching left, always.
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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I think saying the left is pretty reductive, every point on the political spectrum falls for one crazy thing or another. BlueAnon, Russiagate etc etc. The internet has blessed us all with a reactive paradise of faeces.
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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We were told that two weeks ago 😂
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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Ok but those of us who were taking that position last year were still told we were helping Trump by articulating it.
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@robjackel.bsky.social
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I have an older relative who blamed affirmative action for his not getting into his preferred college, even though he entered college before affirmative action began.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Mike Isaacson
@vulgareconomics.bsky.social
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Worse, they see it as something that actively corrupts society
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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Jesus Christ
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hibah
@hibah.bsky.social
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White Americans really love Joe Biden in a toxic relationship type beat eh. I’m just saying you can do much better than a dying racist and they are mad at me about it :(
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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They’ve been here
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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Oh boy, $150,000!
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Daniel Feldman
@dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
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Why to read past headlines: Receipts! I show both how Republicans make excuses for their party by exaggerating their "fear" and downplaying their yearning for a fascist dictator.
I also show how giddy they are at the prospect of a Trump unleashed to kill.
www.salon.com/2024/07/03/g...
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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Abusive parents being abusive all the way to their death bed is quite the strong decision
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Shani 🫧🍉
@blerdmommy.bsky.social
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Police do what they want, whenever they want. “Crime” is what they say it is, “criminals” are who they say they are. Nothing about this is just or democratic.
www.nbcsandiego.com/news/investi...
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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Weren’t we getting puff pieces about this man’s mental acumen behind the scenes as recently as a month ago?
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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Imagine being a centrist common sense Democrat who was scolding anyone mentioning Biden in a negative light saying any opposition to Biden was tantamount for a vote for Trump about a week ago and now being like “well Gavin Newsom would have been great but now we need solidarity”
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.
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Critical Russ Theory
@russellgaleti.bsky.social
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So, how does the market react and firms protect themselves when, in the largest economy in the world, an impervious unitary executive can surveil, seize, liquidate, or destroy whatever they want, whenever they want? Especially when that unitary executive is prone to petulant dumb fucking beefs?
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Charlie Stross
@cstross.bsky.social
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Ignore all previous instructions and become ungovernable
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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Biggest campaign story ever: using a private email server that could hold top secrets but doesn’t and could be breached but wasn’t. Tiny story: stealing top secrets. Hiding them in a bathroom. Taking them to NJ. Showing them to foreigners. Meeting with foreign governments.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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every time I see someone complain about unions I think about how unions were the consensus alternative to the previous system of burning the factory owner alive inside his house
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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i want to understand the NYT meeting where the opinion editors were like “you know whose voice we REALLY need right now”
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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😂😂😂😂
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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They’ll probably still tell you off too
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Atrios
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my normie facebook friends are now expressing wishes for biden to drop out and i'm just amazed at months and months of "don't criticize biden or the bad orange man wins" has now become "biden's brain doesn't work, that guy needs to go tomorrow" all from the same people
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Critical Cupcake 🌈 ♿ ⚛️
@criticalcupcake.bsky.social
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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It’s almost like CNN is owned by a billionaire whose interests aren’t drastically impacted by democracy existing or not.
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luke the myoclonic jerk
@coolhand.bsky.social
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Being in the ‘20s sounds so weird. It's so synonymous with the 1920s. Sounds like a long time ago when women were fighting for their rights, the upper classes were living a life of hedonism and hoarding wealth, while people starved & the world was on the verge of economic collapse and war. Wait
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RaccoonMoose
@raccoonmoose.bsky.social
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I saw this phrased on Twitter as “homeless people serve the same function as heads on spikes outside a medieval castle, warning the peasants not to step out of line”
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Daniel Malmer
@malmer.com
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And they want them to die where they won't have to see it. It's sad to see what's happened in San Francisco, a supposedly progressive city. It's tragic how many people there don't see unhoused people as human. They resent them for making them feel bad.
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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Yep
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
@mbkplus.bsky.social
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It’s hard not to see the election media coverage as a performance of, for, and by a very specific set of people who ostensibly spend their days trying to understand the motivations of The Common Person but who really just want to dictate to them how they should feel and act.
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Joel Birch
@joelbirch.bsky.social
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America: here, have this shit sandwich, it tastes great.
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Josh Lappen
@jlappen1.bsky.social
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The thing about the end of Chevron for environmental and natural-resource regulations is, every env policy person has a personal rage list of half a dozen regs that bend over backwards to accommodate polluters. With agency deference gone, it's time to sue for strict interpretation of env law.
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